Lace up your shoes and get ready to step because Gait-to-Gate is back! Each November, Trilogy Members come together to participate in Gait-to-Gate, our nationwide step challenge. The goal? To help Members stay active heading into the holiday season. The incentive? Members can set their own personal wellness goals while helping contribute to the national mileage goal of the program (and there will be prizes, of course)!

For this year’s national mileage goal, we are honoring our National Parks Service who is celebrating their 105th Anniversary in 2021. We’re betting that EACH Trilogy community can walk the 21,000 miles of trails found in our National Parks for a grand total of 210,000 miles!

Also new for 2021 is a way for more Members to feel competitive and comfortable participating. We’ve created three different tiers of steppers, which you’ll choose from during registration. They include:

  • Casual Steppers (Typically walks up to 10,000 steps a day)
  • Intermediate Steppers (Typically walks 10,001 to 20,000 steps a day)
  • Super Steppers (Typically walks over 20,001 steps a day)

There will be leaderboards and prizes for EACH tier of stepper at every community.

Not a walker? No worries! Even if walking isn’t your thing, you can still participate. More information is included in the Logging Your Steps section below.

Gait-to-Gate is an annual multi-community walking challenge that encourages Members of all shapes and sizes to come together and support one another. Whether you're already a 10K-a-day stepper or you're more of a beginner, Gait-to-Gate is a fun and encouraging way to challenge yourself and help everyone in Trilogy communities achieve a collective goal.

Speaking of our collective goals, in prior years of Gait-to-Gate, we’ve "traversed the country" via a route that took participants the equivalent distance of walking through every Trilogy community nationwide. Another year, we walked the equivalent distance to the moon (and the next year, we came back!).

More recently, we’ve transformed the program as a way to give back, and our Members’ hard work and support means we’ll donate thousands of dollars annually to incredibly important organizations. In years past, we’ve donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and organizations supporting veterans across the country.

Gait-to-Gate is traditionally our event with the highest participation, and we’re proud of that. Like everything in life, the first step is always the hardest!

Registration information is released every October on MyTrilogyLife.com.